Plex Media Server Version 0.9.17.0 Info

| ID (internal) | Description | |---------------|-------------| | PLEX-2413 | Server would crash on scanning certain malformed MKV files with embedded fonts | | PLEX-2581 | Sync to iOS devices failed silently when local storage was full | | PLEX-2677 | Subtitles (SRT/ASS) would desync after seeking in transcoded streams | | PLEX-2722 | DLNA clients (Sony Bravia, Samsung TVs) saw empty folders on large libraries >5000 items | | PLEX-2788 | Memory leak in the media indexer when analyzing corrupted MP3 ID3 tags | | PLEX-2850 | Automatic port mapping (UPnP) failed on some Asus and Netgear routers |

One controversial change in later Plex versions (around 1.3.0 onward) was the strict enforcement of online authentication. If Plex’s cloud authentication servers go down, newer servers refuse to stream locally. Version 0.9.17.0 predates most of these restrictions: plex media server version 0.9.17.0

This makes it popular among privacy-focused users and those in remote locations. This makes it popular among privacy-focused users and